COMPONENT GROUPS OF CENTRALIZERS OF NILPOTENTS IN
SYMMETRIC SPACES.This filecontains a
talk that was given at CAARMS5, University of Michigan, in June 99. The
general theory is studied using the group SL(n,R) as an example. This is for an audience of
non-specialists. There is no Lie structure theory. Everything is done in thecontext of Linear Algebra. Clickhereto download the postscript version.

AY 1998-99 Faculty Internal Grants Program. This
proposal was written in March 1999 for a UmassBostoncompetition . My goal was to acquire internal
funds for equipment and travels.It
contains a research proposal which may give some insight on future work
and proposals.

Martin Luther King Professorship at MIT.This proposal
was at the basis of the MLK professorship which was awarded during the
2000-2001 academic year by the Mathematics department of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology .

National Science Foundation Research
Opportunity Award.This
proposal was funded for a year (3/2002 - 3/2003) by the NSF for work to be
done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with David Vogan.